It’s literally 2016 but worse somehow.
One source close to the Harris campaign tells Rolling Stone they reached out to several staffers in and around the campaign to voice concerns about the candidate embracing Dick and Liz Cheney.
“People don’t want to be in a coalition with the devil,” says the source, speaking about Dick Cheney. They say a Harris staffer responded that it was not the staff’s role to challenge the campaign’s decisions.
A Democratic strategist says they warned key Harris surrogates and top-level officials at the Democratic National Committee that campaigning with Liz Cheney — and making the campaign’s closing argument about how many Republicans were supporting Harris — was highly unlikely to motivate any new swing voters, and risked dissuading already-despondent, infrequent Democratic voters who had supported Biden in 2020. The strategist says they also attempted to have big donors and battleground state party chairs convey the same argument to the Harris campaign.
Another Democratic operative close to Harrisworld says they sent memos and data to Harris campaign staffers underscoring how, among other things, Republican voters, believe it or not, vote Republican — and that the data over the past year screamed that Democrats instead needed to reassure and energize the liberal base and Dem-leaning working class in battleground states. “We were told, basically, to get lost, no thank you,” says the operative.
NYT poll: 47% of voters decribed Kamala Harris as “too liberal or progressive” while 9% described her as “not liberal or progressive enough.”
51% say Barack Obama is “too liberal”
Why do polls get it wrong? It all comes down to who participates in their surveys, how representative they are of the electorate, and how truthfully they respond, say researchers. Without accurate data, polls mean nothing.
Pollsters are “trying hard but they keep trying to be too clever,” he said. "What we need to do is go back to basics and spend the time and money that it takes to do polls accurately.
Exit polls 2024: Deep economic discontent with Biden drove voters to Trump
Do you understand the difference between labels and policy?
I’m sorry I don’t have time to teach you. Take a class if you want your questions answered.
That was a rhetorical question. People want progressive policies that improve their lived experience. That goes for the majority of republican voters too.
Not according to the people who voted
It’s as if the Democrats ran on a neoliberalism platform instead of one with progressive policies. Very obvious to anyone who looked at even a single source of the ones I cited about public support for progressive policies.
And as if you didn’t read any of mine.
I did. None of them are about policy